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Mastering Rust. - Second Edition

You're reading from  Mastering Rust. - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789346572
Pages 554 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Rahul Sharma Rahul Sharma
Profile icon Rahul Sharma

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Rust 2. Managing Projects with Cargo 3. Tests, Documentation, and Benchmarks 4. Types, Generics, and Traits 5. Memory Management and Safety 6. Error Handling 7. Advanced Concepts 8. Concurrency 9. Metaprogramming with Macros 10. Unsafe Rust and Foreign Function Interfaces 11. Logging 12. Network Programming in Rust 13. Building Web Applications with Rust 14. Interacting with Databases in Rust 15. Rust on the Web with WebAssembly 16. Building Desktop Applications with Rust 17. Debugging 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

What is logging and why do we need it?

"Generally, a program should say nothing unless and until it has something to say." - Kernighan and Plauger

Before we talk about the importance of logging, let's define the term so that we have a better context for it. Logging is the practice of making an application record its activity at runtime to any output, where the individual record is called an event log or simply a log. This is often associated with a timestamp describing when the event occurred. The event could be anything that changes the state of the program internally or externally. Logs help you in gaining insights...

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